Hackensack Meridian Health | 100 ACOs to Know 2016

Hackensack Meridian Health (Edison, N.J.). As the result of the newly minted merger between Hackensack University Health Network and Meridian Health in New Jersey, Hackensack Meridian Health has an impressive combined portfolio of ACOs. Hackensack brings the Hackensack Alliance ACO, which was one of the first 27 organizations to join the Medicare Shared Savings Program in April 2012. It generated more than $8 million in shared savings in its first two performance years. Meridian also brings an MSSP ACO, which has been in the program since 2013 and generated more than $7.2 million in shared savings in its first performance year. This year, Meridian launched a co-branded ACO with Aetna that includes Meridian's clinically integrated network, hospital-based physicians, affiliated providers and independent physicians.